ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Tigrayan forces fighting Ethiopian government troops are standing firm on the southern front and engaging soldiers round the town of Adigrat to the north, said Debretsion Gebremichael, head of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, via text message.
The Tigrayan forces have dug up roads, destroyed bridges and booby-trapped roads with explosives in the south, but federal troops are making progress, said Redwan Hussein, spokesman for a government taskforce on Tigray.
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